Salads aren’t usually the first recipes that spring to mind when thinking of stereotypical American food. And yet a cobb salad couldn’t be much more American.
Originating from LA, it’s the perfect blend of ingredients, none of them prepared in any complicated way, just all made perfectly.
But what would you put in yours?
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20 Comments
At work instead of blue cheese we use a Monterey Jack bled and use an avocado lime ranch dressing 😊
Hard boiled eggs, avacado lime ranch dressing and grape/cherry tomatoes.
Perfect!
this is my favorite food and I'm American. but I like it with ranch dressing.
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I love it just like this, or instead of blue cheese and a vinegarette, I like a homemade blue cheese dressing
at work we actually put all the ingredients in a rows across the lettuce we are using. starting with the Egg,onto our bacon bits, avacado, chicken, blue cheese, 1/2" diced tomatoes, croutons then sprinkle chives over top of the entire thing. The salad takes a bit of time to make but it looks really nice when it's done in rows
You would need a hard boil on the egg and Ranch Dressing and then its American!
my grandmother added walnuts.
Romaine and other leaf lettuces have become more popular here in the Midwest over the last decade or so. Don't deseed the tomatoes, Ben! A Cobb needs some juice to overcome the dryness of the cheese and egg-and yes, I know you like your yolk like that but it just doesn't go in this recipe. It's also way better if you had charred the chicken like you did for the Caesar salad! My favorite salad, ruined, not sorted.
Overall a fairly classic take on the Cobb salad, but please finish boiling those eggs to a hard boil (no runny yolks, the firmer cooked yolk is supposed to flake off and mingle with the dressing) and add some chives or red onions.
I have lived in Michigan thumb area at the base of Lake Huron in the City of Port Huron for all (much) of my life and I have for all of the time heard the term rasher of bacon.
i make my cobb salad the same but I use feta cheese instead of blue cheese
This is my favorite salad. It is both light and filling at the same time
The avacado i wouldnt do and i pref bleu cheese dressing (only if homemade, bottle stuff is trash) and usuallyi used to serve them with a quarter of a head of iceberg lettuce. I live in PNW and most cobb salads r similar to that
best Cobb salad
Maybe it is US vs UK taste, or something else, but what you call 'hard boiled' is very far from the pale, completely cooked yolks that I call 'hard boiled'.
A local restaurant here in Oklahoma also tops the salad with a pickled red onion, olives and artichoke hearts, but shredded cheddar instead of bleu cheese. I always get a bleu cheese dressing.
About 40 years ago, I ran a medieval dinner for my church. Since we had so many people, we had to make a lot of salad. To facilitate combining the ingredients, we put all the lettuce and other ingredients (save for the dressing) into a (clean!!) garbage bag/bin liner, and the acolytes who were acting as pages took it out into the corridor and threw it back and forth between them. Literally a 'tossed' salad!! And it tasted great, too!
I think a rasher is a particular weight of slices of bacon here.